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Examiner.com
story from Jul 27, 2012, titled Americans for Prosperity to hold rally to repeal Obama's health care plan.
In it, Examiner.com reports that:

Americans for Prosperity , a group of grassroots activists advocating for limited government and free markets, plans to rally against President Obama's health care plan at Upper Senate Park on Constitution Ave.

<quoted text>I guess social security and medicaid are communistic too.I cAN ALSO guess your not too sharp for you use the commie line when you cant come up with an intellegent response..

Actually based on what they were ORIGINALLY INTENDED to be, yes they are. The problem with these programs is people believe them to be their PRIMARY MEDICAL AND RETIREMENT PLANS! That is NOT what they were originally intended to be. They were intended to SUPPLEMENT plans you already had. Fact is EVERY society has a degree of socialism to it. We all need police, fire, and other social services, but those are not the services that cause the problems. It is when gov't uses medical and retirement programs like medicare and SS to maniplulate our behavior that it becomes a problem. What's sad is there are Americans that are so dependent on these programs that the mere mention of any reform to them, even reforms to keep them solvent for future generations, sends them into a tailspin. I do not believe gov't should be allowed to use any program to manipulate our behavior one way or the other. I also believe Americans should take more individual responsibility for their lives and be more self reliant so as not to be so dependent on these programs. We were meant to live free. Being dependent on gov't to the degree we have allowed ourselves to become is NOT how we were intended to live. Tea Party 2012!

Better dead than red! That once meant something, defiance against gov't dependence. Now so many have become so dependent on gov't for so much, it's more like better red than dead. Dependence is not a traditional American value. Tea Party 2012!

<quoted text>Better dead than red! That once meant something, defiance against gov't dependence. Now so many have become so dependent on gov't for so much, it's more like better red than dead. Dependence is not a traditional American value. Tea Party 2012!

Go tell it to those who draw social security.GO tell it to those on medicaid and medicaid just so they can stay alive battling cancer and other illiness and see what answer you get.The problem with you is that you think goverment is evil and you say those gettinh SS and MEDCAID tough go home and die.The TERM BETTER DEAD THAN RED comes from JOESPH GOEBBELS a nazi now are you a nazi...

<quoted text>Go tell it to those who draw social security.GO tell it to those on medicaid and medicaid just so they can stay alive battling cancer and other illiness and see what answer you get.The problem with you is that you think goverment is evil and you say those gettinh SS and MEDCAID tough go home and die.The TERM BETTER DEAD THAN RED comes from JOESPH GOEBBELS a nazi now are you a nazi...

So to recite anything anyone else says automatically makes you the same as that person, even if you agree with it? doesn't matter anyway, as far as you're concerned I'm a Tea Partier, so I'm already a Nazi right? Still better dead than red. Again I restate my previous belief that it is a shame so many Americans are so dependent on gov't for their needs. Those programs were never intended to be the PRIMARY sources of American care and retirement. You're right, I believe gov't AS IT EXIST TODAY, IS EVIL! I believe AS IT EXISTS TODAY it takes people's sense of self worth and dignity and makes them dependent on it for their needs. There was a time when people would not take a gov't handout, because you were to proud and self reliant to do so. You were TAUGHT better than that. Now it's a badge of honor, and I blame gov't for it. Tea Party 2012!

<quoted text>So to recite anything anyone else says automatically makes you the same as that person, even if you agree with it? doesn't matter anyway, as far as you're concerned I'm a Tea Partier, so I'm already a Nazi right? Still better dead than red. Again I restate my previous belief that it is a shame so many Americans are so dependent on gov't for their needs. Those programs were never intended to be the PRIMARY sources of American care and retirement. You're right, I believe gov't AS IT EXIST TODAY, IS EVIL! I believe AS IT EXISTS TODAY it takes people's sense of self worth and dignity and makes them dependent on it for their needs. There was a time when people would not take a gov't handout, because you were to proud and self reliant to do so. You were TAUGHT better than that. Now it's a badge of honor, and I blame gov't for it. Tea Party 2012!

You sit in that bunker screaming about how weve become a nation of beggars and yet youve not come up with viable alternatives.Not one politican right or left will come out in favor of elimating these programs and you know it.I had to care for elderly parents and i know its expensive and that ss and medicare helped a bit.Dont speak for them because you dont and if you dont want ss and medicare you dont have to take it so grow up...

<quoted text>You sit in that bunker screaming about how weve become a nation of beggars and yet youve not come up with viable alternatives.Not one politican right or left will come out in favor of elimating these programs and you know it.I had to care for elderly parents and i know its expensive and that ss and medicare helped a bit.Dont speak for them because you dont and if you dont want ss and medicare you dont have to take it so grow up...

Damn right they won't vote against it! Too many have been made to be DEPENDENT ON IT! I may not have to take it, but I damn sure have to pay for it! If I could forfeit what I have in both now and put what I've been FORCED BY LAW to put into those plans into my own. I'd do it so fast it would make your head spin! If there is a way to do that I'm begging you send me the info so I can get started doing it NOW! Tea Party 2012!

The problem is that some people are confused at what an entitlement is. MediCARE and Social Security are entitlements. They are entitled because they were paid into by the recipient. Where as MediCAID and welfare are government programs for people who don't pay into. They just sit and take away from those who pay. When you have more takers that those paying in you have what we have now. No one is saying to stop MediCARE or Social security. We need to stop the takers from getting what they didn't work for.

The problem is that some people are confused at what an entitlement is. MediCARE and Social Security are entitlements. They are entitled because they were paid into by the recipient. Where as MediCAID and welfare are government programs for people who don't pay into. They just sit and take away from those who pay. When you have more takers that those paying in you have what we have now. No one is saying to stop MediCARE or Social security. We need to stop the takers from getting what they didn't work for.

Apparently you have raised the ire of some of those "takers". I have no problem with those who take from what they have paid into. I just believe too many have done nothing else to provide for their retirement and medical care in their "golden yrs', and they depend soley on SS and medicare for everything. I believe the gov't has with forethought and an agenda made people dependent on these programs so as to be able to control them one way or the other. I ALWAYS believe in erring to the side of freedom and liberty, rather than dependence on anyone else, much less gov't for my needs. We have to restore personal responsibility and self reliance, to start weening people off the gov't tit, or eventually we will fall. It is inevitable, the numbers don't lie. Tea Party 2012!

<quoted text>Apparently you have raised the ire of some of those "takers". I have no problem with those who take from what they have paid into. I just believe too many have done nothing else to provide for their retirement and medical care in their "golden yrs', and they depend soley on SS and medicare for everything. I believe the gov't has with forethought and an agenda made people dependent on these programs so as to be able to control them one way or the other. I ALWAYS believe in erring to the side of freedom and liberty, rather than dependence on anyone else, much less gov't for my needs. We have to restore personal responsibility and self reliance, to start weening people off the gov't tit, or eventually we will fall. It is inevitable, the numbers don't lie. Tea Party 2012!

Then quit dissing em.Thats all you do is tear it down any jackass can do that it takes carpenters to build it..

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